How To Install texlive-pdftex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pdftex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is texlive-pdftex.noarch

An extension of TeX which can be configured to directly generate PDF documents instead of DVI. All current free TeX distributionsm including TeX live, MacTeX and MiKTeX include pdfTeX (Plain TeX) and pdfLaTeX (LaTeX). ConTeXt was designed around use of pdfTeX (though it is now migrating towards LuaTeX). date

We can use yum to install texlive-pdftex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-pdftex.noarch.

Install texlive-pdftex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-pdftex.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-pdftex.noarch

How To Uninstall texlive-pdftex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texlive-pdftex.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texlive-pdftex.noarch

texlive-pdftex.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-pdftex-svn29585.1.40.11
/usr/share/doc/texlive-pdftex-svn29585.1.40.11/gpl.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfetex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdftex.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/simpdftex/simpdftex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex_dl14.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex_ndl14.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftex-dvi.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/tex/generic/pdftex/glyphtounicode.tex

References

• texlive-pdftex.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pdftex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.